Building Your Digital Identity, Literacy, and Network
While reading the first assigned article “Why Mozilla cares about Web Literacy“, I came across a nugget I couldn’t stop thinking about as I continued reading: “Learning by making is not a new idea. This concept is fundamental to the work of foundational thinkers such as Froebel, Dewey, and Papert (amongst many others). For example, […]
My little nugget that I have chosen is from an article called Digital Skills and Digital Literacy,…
“Building a Digital Reputation” After reading this particular assignment, not only I plan to built up a good and strong self reputation on internet, I learn the best way to present myself in public. The best way to present yourself in public is through internet. Before internet, you only know the people you meet […]
Sherry Turkle famously argues technology has begun to overtake our attention and time, which has led to increased physical isolation and shallow online interaction. She contends, in a community-starved world, we need to disconnect from our smartphones and other Information and Communications Technology (ICT)-enabling devices in order to create greater balance: “We think constant connection will make us
Now when you first read the title, you might assume that my professor asked me write a post on these kinds of nuggets: Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on your love of chicken nuggets) that is not what the assignment entails….
For this assignment, we were asked to find a passage in our required reading that really intrigued or spoke to us. I read this essay by Hossein Derakhshan about the presence of “the stream” and its implications on today’s open web. In the article, Derakhshan writes that “Popularity is not wrong in and of itself, but it […]
Iran’s blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web “Hossein Derakhshan was imprisoned by the regime for his blogging. On his release, he found the internet stripped of its power to change the world and instead serving up a…
“Six years was a long time to be in jail, but it is an entire era online. Writing on the internet had not changed, but reading – or, at least, getting things read – had altered dramatically. I’d been told how essential social networks had become, so I tried to post a link to one […]
Perhaps my mistake lay in picking something too concrete–not really “an idea or a theme”–but I decided to read about sonnets. I am an English major; I write poetry sometimes. Starting on Wikipedia was the obvious thing, but it sounded like an equally obvious dead-end. A simple Google search led me to a collection of … Continue reading ““Associative Trails” Post: Found Poetry”
